Iowa View: Godfrey critics are out to rig workers' comp - or wreck it

Iowa View

9:29 PM,
Nov. 4, 2013

Written by

Ken Sagar

Typically, politicians who criticize Chris Godfrey, Iowa's workers' compensation commissioner, are really interested in one thing: rigging the system for big business interests. When they fail to accomplish this, they try to destroy the system's credibility and shut it down.

In a recent Register guest editorial ["Job Creators See Godfrey as a Burden," Oct. 29], state Sen. Jake Chapman misled readers about Godfrey's record, claiming an Iowa judge had found a "lack of objectivity" in one of the commissioner's rulings, Rizvic v. BPI. A simple Google search can show you that Godfrey didn't ...